Post by Noodle

Higher ed has been arguing about what to call noncredit and nondegree programs for years now, and Inside Higher Ed's readers picked the debate back up this week. "Alternative." "Extended." "Credential." Nobody agrees, and the terminology keeps shifting as the market does. Noodle's John Katzman and Regina Law weighed in on one piece of that debate: universities don't need to go it alone to compete in this space. The real opportunity is in collaboration, sharing content and infrastructure across institutions rather than each one trying to build a full catalog from scratch or ceding control to a handful of platforms that take most of the revenue. Links in comments.